by Elio
Parlez-vous Biologie? In this spirit, we thought you might enjoy taking a quiz that tests your familiarity with terms of biology. To check your answer, you can get a definition of each of the terms by clicking on them. Many are from our column Of Terms in Biology, some from other posts, and a couple are just related bystanders. Here’s our scoring sheet:
26 – 30 — Magnifique
21 – 25 — Trés bon
16 – 20 — Pas mal
11 – 15 — Comme ci, comme ça
5 – 10 — Tant pis
0 – 4 — Bon voyage
Acritarch
Allopatric
Ballistospore
Bdelloid
Biomimicry
Candidatus
Coccolith
Darwinian paradox
Endolithic
Epibiont
Eremacausis
Golgi apparatus
Hamus
Haustorium
Heterocyst
Hopanoid
Karst Cavern
Kinetoplast
Mycetangium
NanoSIMS
Neuston
Panmictic
Paraphyletic
Parasitoids
Phyllosphere
Pseudogene
Synteny
Syntrophy
Trophozoite
Viroid
People who score 26 or better can claim a prize—a near-life size, autographed image of a famous bacterium. Send your request to us.
Karst cavern? Geology, I would think ...
-- Patrick
Posted by: Feral Boy | March 02, 2011 at 01:45 PM